If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.
Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I don't know.
I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we,” like football fans talking about the home team.
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.
For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that reason that I have a real personal passion to make Doncaster Rovers a success story.
Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
